Climate Minister Makes 7,000-Mile Round Trip From COP28 for Rwanda Vote – and Will Then Be Flown Back Again
The Government’s Climate Minister has been flown thousands of miles back from final negotiations at the COP28 environment conference in Dubai to vote for the Rwanda bill, it has emerged. The Telegraph has the story.
Graham Stuart had been attending the last stages of the climate summit before he was called back to Parliament as Downing Street scrambles to see off a Tory rebellion over legislation.
Mr. Stuart will be sent back to COP28 after the vote, meaning he is making a 6,800-mile round trip to help Rishi Sunak pass his new emergency bill.
Hauling back a Climate Minister from an environmental summit via two long-distance flights reflected how every vote was deemed to matter by Number 10.
The vote on the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, which toughens up the legal protections for the Rwanda deportation, takes place on Tuesday evening.
Yvette Cooper, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, joked about Mr. Stuart’s return: “I guess they can say at least one flight has taken off as a result of this legislation.”
MPs on the Commons International Development Committee also had a trip to the Caribbean cancelled because of the crunch vote.
The MPs had been due to visit Barbados and Dominica to explore the effects of climate change on the islands. The BBC reported some MPs were on their way to the airport when the trip was cancelled.
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The only thing more ridiculous than him is his title – Climate Minister. Why not Water Boiling Point Minister or Gravity Minister? Or the Speed of Light Minister?
They can’t even do the basics competently.
This is good news, shows they don’t believe a word of their own bs.
All aboard the gravy train..!
Flown from one Christmas panto to another. These actors are exceptionally busy this time of year.
Has anyone told this joke of a government, when you’re in a hole,,stop digging.
In fact, hold that thought. Don’t tell them.
As Napoleon seems to be popular right now, let’s take his advice:Never interrupt tour enemy when he is making a mistake.
I hope they’ll be transporthing him as checked-in luggage. Otherwise – ministers certainly don’t fly economy – the trip will cost at least £900 and may cost up to £16,000. For government, that’s obviously chump change but for many people, it’s nevertheless a real lot of money.
As a way of showing sheer, unbridled contempt for the people of this country this takes the ruddy biscuit.
Why is it that those with a “carbon footprint ” the size of a panzer division are pushing the green agenda the hardest.
Cui could possibly bono?
https://off-guardian.org/2023/12/12/wont-someone-save-us-from-the-covid-19-inquiry/
Iain Davis over at Off-G lamenting the dire farce that is the Hallett pantomime.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/rwanda-bill-has-pa
Another frickin pantomime.
If anybody gets a trip to Rwanda courtesy our government it’s an odds on certainty they’ll be issued with a return ticket.
A total, utter, dire farce designed to keep both the stupid and the intelligent stupid on side.
The net effect on immigration? Pho#k all!
It will actually increase immigration because for every person sent there we’ve agreed to take refugees in Rwanda selected by the Rwandans.
Those will be the really ill ones who will get priority attention from the NHS.
Good point.
I confidently predict that at the next GE the vast majority of “White British” who vote will vote for their own extinction.
That’s my money you’re spaffing, Conservative Party swine.
Dear Climate Minister, Your Climate Questions start now.—- (1) What percentage of the atmosphere is CO2? (2) How much of that CO2 is caused by human activities? (3) What is the rate of sea level rise? (4) How much of that sea level rise is caused by human activities? (5) What is ECS (Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity)? (6) What is the correct value for ECS? (7) What observational evidence have you that storms are increasing in frequency or intensity? (8) What observational evidence have you that floods and droughts are increasing? (9).What difference to global climate will Net Zero policies adopted by the UK make? (10) What is “The Hotspot”? (11) Is CO2’s effect on climate Linear or Logarithmic? ——-and finally. (12) Who do you think you are you to dictate to me how to live my life?
How much do earn as Minister?
Are any of your family employed by you at the HoC?
What other financial interests do and your family have?
How many holidays do you all take a year and to where?
Do you drive an EV car and have a heat pump?
How many properties do you own?
Very good———-We should also recall that a few months ago when Grant Schapps was still Minister for Net Zero, he was asked “Are heat pumps any good”? ——His quite remarkable reply was —” I don’t know, but I am having one fitted in my house so I will soon find out” ——-What a blithering idiot. They are all a shower of blithering group think parasites.
I rather think quite a lot of CO2 is generated at the green power station known as Drax. Conmen, snake oil salesmen, chancers and charlatans. All of them.
KNOB
I’ve never heard of this bloke. Is he someone important?
“MPs on the Commons International Development Committee also had a trip to the Caribbean cancelled because of the crunch vote. The MPs had been due to visit Barbados and Dominica to explore the effects of climate change on the islands.”
= “MPs on the Commons International Development Committee had been due to visit Barbados and Dominica to enjoy the effects of a climate changing from the currently chilly c 10 degrees in the UK to the relatively balmy c 20 degrees on the islands.”